[ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 Finalist ]

My mother is 43 and ’til 3 years ago she used to live by herself. After my grandfather died in 2012 due to Alzheimer’s complications, my grandma broke her arm. Then she chose to never leave the bed anymore. Her feet is atrophied and mom has to take car of her. They live together in a small apartment in my hometown. Mom was never able to take care of me. I had many homes. Seeing her having to take full-time care of her own mother feels weird. Mom’s star sign is Gemini: she has a very sensitive humour. Her mood is specially bad in the morning. Maybe this is my way of justifying her behaviours.

It must not be easy to have to wipe your old mother’s diapers, feed her in the mouth, no day off, specially if you are in a bad mood. Since I was young I’ve lived with mom’s spicy mood. I never understood it, although I sensed something was wrong. I left home early: I was only 16. I moved town and since that day I try to understand and accept my mother and her way of life. Mom is a drug addict. Her whole life she has been a constant user of cocaine, marijuana and nicotine. But I only figured out that many years later. I heard someone describing a cocaine addict and my mom completely fitted the profile. She confirmed to me. I thought of photographing mom so I could deal better with the situation, as a photographer, and maybe overcome some of my issues. But it turned out to be more complicated. Registering those scenes was the hardest thing ever, because deep down those are scenes I know by heart and I have been trying my best to forget them. Perpetuate them was everything I didn’t wanted to do. Somehow I managed to overcome my fear. This is my mom’s routine. Among cigarettes, diapers, drug trips, weaknesses and bad moods, some joy, some subtlety. The pictures show y mom as she is. I discovered that the image I have of her is very different from reality. And because I still admire her very much despite of all, there is no picture of her using cocaine. I could not make it.

Bio

I am 23 and photography is quite new to me. I am still learning my way around it. I like to shoot actions, real moments. And art.

FujiFilm/EPF Young Talent Award

The FujiFilm/EPF Young Talent Award is an additional grant for photographers under 25. Using David Alan Harvey’s words “A heart felt thank you also to FujiFilm for making it possible for the EPF to keep focus on the future generations, the young ones, the ones with a vision already making a mark now… and just might make another jump soon…”

[ EPF 2015 Finalist ]

We have a rectangle in which we keep reassembling the world. It’s a fantastic tool; it fixates what’s in front of the camera and also what’s behind the camera. It is an objective picture in subjective viewfinder. Through photography we are re-framing our memories, fantasies, thoughts and our reality.

I try to find a new shape, which will be more accurate and fitting to the time because photography keeps changing and constantly crosses a new pain threshold, because the world changes; especially nowadays, when we get a huge number of diverse visual information.
I increasingly inclined to think that the only document that can enclose the realistic feeling it is emotion, a pain that comes to being through some conflict in frame.

In this series I create some conditions without a special event, without specific time and place. This space aimed at the creation of pure sense, where less important to understand, but more to feel. I perform a kind of ritual and this ritual creates a basis for a conditional reality.
People in this series are in their rented apartments. I see them as kind of inconspicuous survivors of today, torn apart by typical modern reality, where they are between livelihood and studies, banks and dreams, trends and personal style, fashion, news and war, and so on.
It is unclear whether they are awake or going to bed. There is state of sticky enveloping sleep and insomnia. What is life? Is it a dream, an illusion or a long jump from nowhere to nowhere? This series it’s like a song that’s about the beauty and drama that can be noticed in everyday routine life; poetics of enclosed spaces.
With all the strangeness of the picture, for me it feels familiar and real, more natural and alive. I wanted the weirdness of the image would resonate with the weirdness of the world. It’s like understanding what’s beautiful only after viewing what’s ugly.

Bio

Originally, I’m from a small town Pyatigorsk in the North Caucasus of Russia. From the first meeting with the world of photography, I felt that the reality and the image in the photograph are very similar and at the same time different, the world in the viewfinder seemed like mine. At the age of twenty I moved to Israel. The type of photos I’d shoot back then was very different from today. I took many nice photos whose only essence was formative aesthetics, and maybe a little surreal. Another pretty picture and another pretty picture? I had a feeling I’m going over the same mistake and every time I felt that I’m missing some important element. The change of view on photography came during my studies in Bezalel Academy. One of the interesting things I learned is the understanding that, with time, photography changes, that the view towards photography as a media changes, as well as its value.

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Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.Here within the so-called “room of the sacrifice.” The alligators are killed by a cut on her neck made by hand with a knife by a specific operator, this operator is used only to this task.

[ EPF 2015 Finalist ]

We all know intensive farming, which uses industrial and scientific techniques to get the maximum amount of product at the lowest cost and using minimal space. A practice widespread in all the developed countries.

Yet we know much less about how intensive farming actually works in reality regarding the huge business of animal skins destined to the high fashion market. I show you the sacrifice hidden behind the ruthless values expressed by this hellish trade, and its cultural trend dominated by remorseless standards of beauty.

The business volume amounts to several millions of Euros and although the breeding of animal skins has long been opposed by animal rights movements, which led to massive campaigns against this practice especially in the eighties and nineties.We have to wonder if there is a need of new laws, or just a cultural awareness.

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.Thousands of caiman skins stretched out in the open after the first cleaning process and salting on the farm.The skins of breeding “Repticosta” are intended to Eastern Market, the skins will be exhibited here in Singapore within 20 days.

Poland, Village of “Biala Wies” close to Grodzisk Wlkp.Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland.Here the conveyor belt where the mink are transported from one building to another. In the background the bodies without mantles are stacked in a large container, after being processed.

Poland, Village of “Biala Wies” close to Grodzisk Wlkp.Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland.The panoramic view of intensive mink of the Polish company “Nutrex”, one of the largest and most important in Northern Europe. In these hangars are bred tens of thousands of minks every year and their skins are used mainly for the manufacture of China, the most important in the world today.

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.A caiman adult (2.5 mt) inside a fenced breeding marsh.On the platform of cement has been poured for the weekly meal caimans adults.

Poland, Village of “Biala Wies” close to Grodzisk Wlkp. Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland. Here the conveyor belt where the mink are transported from one building to another. In the background the bodies without mantles are stacked in a large container, after being processed.

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.An operator performs the cuts on the skin of a caiman just shot down. This delicate process and occurs in several steps.The alligators are killed by a cut on her neck made by hand with a knife by a specific operator, this operator is used only to this task.

Poland, Village of “Biala Wies” close to Grodzisk Wlkp. Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland. Here the rooms responsible for separation of mantles from their bodies.

Colombia, two hours from Barranquilla. Here during the packaging to ship to destination skins ready for tanning processing.

Poland, Village of “Biala Wies” close to Grodzisk Wlkp. Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland. Here in the warehouse where dead minks are stored, ready to be processed. “Nutrex” company process about 6.000 minks per day, this rhythm goes on for about two months a year.

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.An operator assigned to the tanks of the largest alligators on the farm. Here the operator controls that the meal has been consumed.

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.The puppies are moved in tanks with different characteristics, depending on the size and health emergencies caimans. Here in the photo, hundreds of caimans of about 70 cm. in a large tub.

Poland, here inside one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland.In this warehouse came the lifeless bodies of the minks, killed by gas fumes. Mink will be subsequently placed on a conveyor belt and transported to the various rooms where mantles will be separated from their bodies.

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.The puppies are moved to larger tanks and with different characteristics, depending on the size and health emergencies caimans. Here in the photo, some caimans of about 70 cm. inside a tank where it is regularly paid an antibiotic estimate (the blue liquid), to ensure the occurrence of serious infections.

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.Within an intensive rearing of crocodiles.Here in the room used to separate the skins from the body of the caimans. This process, like any other work on the farm, is exclusively manually.

For example, most of the intensive farming of furry animals are concentrated in the northern hemisphere in Europe, where at the first positions we find Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands. At the same time, looking at east, China is the world leader in the manufacture and in the southeast side, we find countries such as Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam which represent the main market of snakes and many species of reptiles. At the other side, in the western hemisphere, Canada and the United States are the largest producers of furs and reptile skins, but for what concerns the crocodile skins production, in South America we have strong competitors such as Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia.

At date, I accomplished the first two chapters, in Colombia, where I told the destiny of crocodiles and in Poland, working inside a minks intensive farm. I’ll tell you this ruthless process with an unprecedented document on this terrifying phenomenon, a monstrosity in accordance with law that is perpetrating from decades, the extermination of animal species destined for the market of high fashion.

Italy, Milan in September 2014, caiman skins exposed during the most important showroom in the world, called “LINEAPELLE.” Thousands of workers are coming to this event from all over the world.

Colombia, two hours from Barranquilla. A caiman adult (2.5 mt) inside a fenced swamp. This male of about 2.5 meters is used only as a player and is not intended to function within the production cycle of skins for trade.

Poland, Village of “Biala Wies” close to Grodzisk Wlkp.Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland.Here during the killing of the minks ready to be processed. The killing is done by gas fumes..

Here inside one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland.In this warehouse came the lifeless bodies of the minks, killed by gas fumes. Mink will be subsequently placed on a conveyor belt and transported to the various rooms where mantles will be separated from their bodies.

Poland, Village of “Biala Wies” close to Grodzisk Wlkp.Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland.Here inside warehouses tailoring, hanging on the wall paper patterns that will serve the dressmakers to pack the right models in fur.

Poland, Village of “Biala Wies” close to Grodzisk Wlkp.Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland.Here inside warehouses tailoring during the drying process of the skins of minks.

Poland, Village of “Biala Wies” close to Grodzisk Wlkp.Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland.Here inside warehouses tailoring, a fox skin resting on a dummy.

Colombia, two hours from Barranquilla. Within an intensive breeding farm for crocodiles. Here during the capture of a caiman intended along with hundreds of other specimens, to the Asian market. The capture is performed manually and is made possible and safe through the experience of a team specially prepared. The first intervention immediately after the catch is the application of an elastic rubber band on the mouth of the alligator to prevent the animal bite.

Italy, Milan in September 2014, a fur coat of minks exposed during the most important showroom in the world, called “LINEAPELLE.” Thousands of workers are coming to this event from all over the world.

Poland, Village of “Biala Wies” close to Grodzisk Wlkp. Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland. Here a specimen of mink in its cage, where they spend their entire life.

Bio

Paolo Marchetti is based in Italy. He has worked for thirteen years in the cinema industry. In his photography he pays particular attention to political and anthropological issues. He has covered stories in Brazil, Central America, Cuba, Eastern Europe, India, the United States, Haiti, China, Central Africa, Colombia etc.

He publishes his work in international magazines such as L’Espresso, Vanity Fair, 6MOIS, Sunday Times, British Journal of Photojournalism, The Guardian, Geo, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, CNN, New York Times, Time etc.

Marchetti has received several awards such as 5 times the NPPA – Best of Photojournalism, 4 times the PDN’s Award, the Sony WPO Award, the Getty Images Grant, finalist at the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, 4 awards at the POYi, the American Photography Annual Book, the ANI Pix-Palace, the Leica Photographer Award, the SDN – Social Documentary Network, the Alexia Foundation Grant and the World Press Photo etc.

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SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL – DECEMBER 10, 2009: Children playing in the stairs in one of the buildings of the abandonated chocolate factory, on December 10, 2009 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which is safer that the alternatives available to them. However they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally.

[ EPF 2015 Finalist ]

Many say that violence is the social pandemic of the century in Latin America. Yet everyday life and social change in the region has never been immune to violence. The conquest, the slavery system, the independence, land acquisition, expropriation of natural resources and political revolutions have been violent. The threat of violence continues to be a common denominator in the region, although now manifested in different ways. Today, the issue of violence and crime is not a result of politics, but devoid of any ideological end. Violence has become familiar and intimate, a trivialized routine in the region, while targets of violence have become so blurred they cease to make sense. The loss of social dialogue has made it so that acts of violence seem the only way to resolve conflicts within these societies.

This new kind of violence mostly affects young, second generation urban dwellers, who are exposed to high consumer expectations fueled by advertising and mass media contemporaries. Most of these young people are not able to meet these expectations by conventional means prescribed by society and therefore turn to force.

SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL – MARCH 3, 2011: General vision of the countyard and the structure of the occupied chocolate factory, on March 3, 2011 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which is safer that the alternatives available to them. However they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally.

SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL – JANUARY 22, 2011: Ana celebrating her sith anniversary. She was born and has grown up inside the abandonated chocolate factory, on January 22, 2011 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. This impoverished community took up residence in an old abandoned chocolate factory on the coast in Salvador de Bahia. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which is safer that the alternatives available to them. However they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally.

SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL – MAY, 22 2010: Melanie (22) with her two sons in a small shack in an abandonated chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia. In spite of the extreme conditions in wich they live, this factory in ruins has become a home for the family, on May 22, 2010 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which is safer that the alternatives available to them. However they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally.

SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL – MAY 9, 2010: Two young girls looking out of a wall destroyed during the last rainy season, on May 9, 2010 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. This impoverished community took up residence in an old abandoned chocolate factory on the coast in Salvador de Bahia. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which is safer that the alternatives available to them. However they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally.

SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL – MARCH 21, 2011: Mens fighting with knives and wood stick due to debt problems, on March 21, 2011 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which is safer that the alternatives available to them. However they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally.

SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL – MARCH 20, 2011: Couple making sex. The prostitution levels at the favela are very high. The pricipal cause is to get money for food or to take drugs, on March 20, 2011 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which is safer that the alternatives available to them. However they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA – APRIL, 2013: “Barrio” in the outskirts of Caracas. Most of the 25.000 people murdered in Venezuela in 2013 came from the “Barrios”, the most violence neighborhoods in the world.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA – APRIL 2013: Social building at the popular Barrio of 23 de Enero in Caracas.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA – MARCH 2013: A young girl in a bus.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA – MARCH 2013: Police from the municipality of Sucre during an operation in the neighborhood of Petare, which is is one of the most troubled and violent areas of the Venezuelan capital. In Venezuela more than 25.000 people got killed 2013. The number of killed has risen steadily since Hugo Chavez took the power of the country in 1999.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA – APRIL 2013: Group of young “malanadros”. Those armed kids control the drug traffic in their neighborhood close from downtown Caracas, Venezuela. In Venezuela more than 25.000 people got killed 2013. The number of killed has risen steadily since Hugo Chavez took the power of the country in 1999.

As a sociologist and documentary photographer, I have been conducting in-depth research on the growth and transformation of violence in Latin America for the past six years. I have since developed some chapters of my project. It was a long trip from the favelas of Brazil to the ungoverned territory of the Amazon forest; witnessing the continent drug production and its impact in local communities in Mexico and Peru or the growing violence during the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela and its corrupted penal system. Now I’m very near to finish this long term project. With a little bit more time I can better understand the roots of crime, punishment and security in Latin America; and to close the project in form of a book that will alert political and media leaders on this important issue.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA – MARCH 2013: Police from the municipality of Sucre during an operation in the neighborhood of Petare, which is is one of the most troubled and violent areas of the Venezuelan capital. In Venezuela more than 25.000 people got killed 2013. The number of killed has risen steadily since Hugo Chavez took the power of the country in 1999.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA – APRIL 2013: Family carrying the coffin of a “malandro”. He got killed by a rival gang member the night before. In Venezuela more than 25.00 people got killed 2013. The number of killed has risen steadily since Hugo Chavez took the power of the country in 1999.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA – APRIL 2013: Family saying bye to Josein. He got killed by a rival gang member the night before. In Venezuela more than 25.00 people got killed 2013. The number of killed has risen steadily since Hugo Chavez took the power of the country in 1999.

VISTA HERMOSA PRISON, CIUDAD BOLIVAR, VENEZUELA – APRIL 2013: General vision of Vista Hermosa Prison. An elevated water tank with the name of the carro Galaxticos illuminates the jail overnight and reminds all who are in charge. In the left, a mural with the chief of the prison, the inmate Wilmer Brizuela and in the back another mural with Nelson Mandela, a hero for Wilmer. The carro is the armed group of inmates guards who take care of the prison. The chief of all of them is Wilmer Brizuela, Wilmito, the Pran, the unquestioned leader of one of Venezuela’s notorious prisons. (Photo by Sebastian Liste/NOOR)

Members of the “carro” run a routine check in the Vista Hermosa (Beautiful View) Prison . The “carro” is the armed group of inmates guards who take care of the prison. The chief of all of them is Wilmer Brizuela, Wilmito, the “Pran”, the unquestioned leader of one of Venezuela’s notorious prisons. He believes that his rule over the almost 2.000 inmates is more humane than the Venezuelan prison authorities, who have been widely criticized by human-rights groups for the overcrowding, poor living conditions and corruption in the country’s prisons. (Photo by Sebastian Liste/NOOR)

VISTA HERMOSA PRISON, CIUDAD BOLIVAR, VENEZUELA – APRIL 2013: Prisoners make a blood strike on the Vista Hermosa prison roof to demand to the government their transport to the Venezuelan capital city, Caracas. They arrived recently to Vista Hermosa but Wilmito, the prisoners chief, do not welcome them due the overcrowding on his prison. If finally the new inmates stay, they won´t have rights in this prison and their lifes will be in risk. They started the strike 3 weeks before as a food strike but due it was totally ineffective they decided to cut their legs. The prisons in Venezuela have capacity for around 15.500 inmates but nowadays they are more than 52.000 imprisoned in the country. Prison overcrowding is due the dramatic increase of violence acts in the country (More than 25.000 people got killed in Venezuela in 2013) and the collapse of the judicial system. The majority of the inmates in the country have never been judgment, but meanwhile, guilty or not, they are in jail.

VISTA HERMOSA PRISON, CIUDAD BOLIVAR, VENEZUELA – MARCH 2013: Prisoners families waiting to see the immates while the “carro” collect the “causa”. Since the inamte Wilmito, a champion boxer, and his gang took control of Vista Hermosa by force, the inmates are allowed to bring their families to the prison twice per week. The “causa” is the weekly taxes paid to the Pran by inmates to ensure safety. With this funds the Pran buy guns to arm his guard. But with this money he also cover the inmates basic needs, as food or cleaning products, everything that should be done by the Venezuelan Government. But Wilmito goes beyond, and he have been making fancy transformations in the prison as building a pool, a baseball field and a disco.

VISTA HERMOSA PRISON, CIUDAD BOLIVAR, VENEZUELA – MARCH 2013: Prisoner enjoying the visit of his newborn son during the weekend. Since the inmates take the control of Vista Hermosa prison the rules are more flexible for them and their families can visit them twice a week.

VISTA HERMOSA PRISON, CIUDAD BOLIVAR, VENEZUELA – APRIL 2013: Inmates dancing with girls during a weekend visit. In the background, an armed member of the “carro” keeps watch. Since the inmate Wilmito and his gang took control of Vista Hermosa by force, they organize several night parties with alcohol, drugs and prostitutes. This freedom the inmates have to do whatever they want inside the prison could not function without the complicity of corrupt officials who allow heavy weapons inside. (Photo by Sebastian Liste/NOOR)

VISTAHERMOSA PRISON, CIUDAD BOLIVAR, VENEZUELA – MAY 2013: Prisoners betting during a boxing organized by Wilmito. The chief of all of them in the called “pran”, who have the control of the whole prison. The militaries who control the prion from outside are not allowed to enter inside the prison from the last 5 years. Since the prisoner took the control of the prion to improve their living conditions. Now they do whatever they want inside and organize racketeering in the city from the inside.

Bio

I was born in 1985, and I spent my life between two families in both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, in Spain and Uruguay, the origins of my family. When I was a teenager I discover hundreds of pictures, my grandfather took while working in different communities in the continent. After days of looking them in a slide viewer I become inspired by creating a visual map of Latin America and I decided to become a photographer to document a region with bloody and open veins, as Eduardo Galeano described in the several books that become my inspiration. I studied Sociology, Political Sciences, Anthropology, Photography and Poetry before feeling ready to start my long term documentary project in 2009. Since then, the chapters of this ongoing life project have been recognized, published and exhibited worldwide.

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[ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 Finalist ]

This project is based upon the relations between food and literature through photography. Starting from specific passages from fiction literature, I aim to recreate the symbolic and emotional strength of literary food scenes.

Being a feature of relevant human behaviour and psychological events, the meals within literary texts are meaningful insofar as they deeply fulfill physical needs as well as they provide psycho-emotional nourishment.

Giving life to a story, the motif of food may also be a landmark in the storytelling or defines a character, relates him to a social or cultural identity.

Dumpling (Guy de Maupassant)

The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)

The Child (Jules Vallès)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Brothers Grimm)

Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)

Ulysses (James Joyce)

Viper in the Fist (Hervé Bazin)

Love in the Times of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)

To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)

The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)

Moby Dick; or the Whale (Herman Melville)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)

The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)

Little Red Riding Hood (Charles Perrault)

The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of la Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes)

Narnia : The Witch, the Lion and the Wardrobe (C.S.Lewis)

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)

Heidi (Johanna Spyri)

Millenium : The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

BlueBeard (Amélie Nothomb)

Remembrance of Things Past (Marcel Proust)

Bio

Holder of the European Bachelor of Photography, Charles Roux attended a Paris photography school (Icart Photo) and graduated as “head of the year” as well as “best end-of-studies portfolio.” Also graduated in Anglo-American and Hispanic Literature and Civilisations, his world is widely influences by literature, cinema and painting. All he endeavours to create is atmosphere above all, epxloring realities and their underlying stories. He is currently living and working in Paris, France.

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FujiFilm/EPF Young Talent Award

The FujiFilm/EPF Young Talent Award is an additional grant for photographers under 25. Using David Alan Harvey’s words “A heart felt thank you also to FujiFilm for making it possible for the EPF to keep focus on the future generations, the young ones, the ones with a vision already making a mark now… and just might make another jump soon…”

Arrivals and Departures chronicles Jacob Aue Sobol’s travels across the Asian continent by train during 2012-2014, with stops in Moscow, Russia; Ulan Batar, Mongolia and Beijing, China, and numerous rural communities along the way. During three separate month-long trips, Sobol photographed the changing landscape from his window seat, as well as encounters with inhabitants of the locations where he disembarked. Using the camera as a tool to create contact, closeness and intimacy, Sobol’s approach to photography is personal. His voyage along the Trans-Siberian Railway was, he says “an investigation of the emotional states that control us, inspire us, and keep us moving.” The images capture life’s complexities: people, places and the relationships between them.

Sobol shoots in black and white, creating stark visual and emotional contrasts. Using a digital camera for the first time, but retaining the tight cropping and grainy imagery that characterize his Sabine and I,Tokyo series, the photographs are intense and immediate records of his subjects. Young couples in bed, animals traversing icy fields, stark corners of temporary lodgings are all depicted without reference to a specific place or time, reflecting the inter- connected, universal story that Sobol strives to tell.

Arrivals and Departures, as exhibition of nearly sixty 20” x 24” gelatin silver prints from the artist’s most recent body of work, will open today Thursday, July 16, and close on Friday, August 28 with a reception for the artist on Thursday, July 16, 5:00 – 8:00 pm at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York.

Bio

Jacob is a member of Magnum Photos. Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, Rita Castelotte Gallery in Madrid and RTR Gallery in Paris also represent him.

Jacob Aue Sobol was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1976. He lived in Canada from 1994-95 and Greenland from 2000-2002. In Spring 2006 he moved to Tokyo, living there 18 months before returning to Denmark in August 2008. After studying at the European Film College, Jacob was admitted to Fatamorgana, the Danish School of Documentary and Art Photography in 1998. There he developed a unique, expressive style of black-and-white photography, which he has since refined and further developed.

In the autumn of 1999 he went to live in the settlement Tiniteqilaaq on the East Coast of Greenland. Over the next three years he lived mainly in this township with his Greenlandic girlfriend Sabine and her family, living the life of a fisherman and hunter but also photographing. The resultant book Sabine was published in 2004 and the work was nominated for the 2005 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

In the summer of 2005 Jacob traveled with a film crew to Guatemala to make a documentary about a young Mayan girl’s first journey to the ocean. The following year he returned by himself to the mountains of Guatemala where he met the indigenous family Gomez-Brito. He stayed with them for a month to tell the story of their everyday life. The series won the First Prize Award, Daily Life Stories, World Press Photo 2006.

In 2006 he moved to Tokyo and during the next two years he created the images from his recent book I, Tokyo. The book was awarded the Leica European Publishers Award 2008 and published by Actes Sud (France), Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (Great Britain), Edition Braus (Germany), Lunwerg Editores (Spain) and Peliti Associati (Italy).

In 2008 Jacob started working in Bangkok and Copenhagen.

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[ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 Finalist ]

During the summer following my last year of high school I started documenting the lives of my closest friends. We grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, a sprawling city in decline. Unable to afford anything else, we entertained ourselves by partying excessively in our friends? small two-bedroom apartment.

On August 20th, 2010 my best friend Ian was shot in the stomach on the stoop of that same apartment building. He still suffers occasional pain from the scar tissue within his body. His crippling anxiety and other psychological maladies are further exacerbated by an abusive father, and alcoholism.

Michael, Ian’s older brother, has mostly, moved on in his life. He works as a hospital cook and married Heather, the mother of his children. His mangled left hand however, which he broke that chaotic evening remains as a constant reminder of the night he almost lost his only sibling.

Heather acted as a caregiver to Ian when he was first out of the hospital. As a nurse?s aid she had no problem changing Ian?s bloodstained bandages. Ever since their friendship has been in decay despite her marriage to his brother. On April 2nd, 2013 Heather and Michael welcomed their second child, a son Deavon Ian Connor.

I have photographed my friends for the past four years. Within this time I have watched, as they?ve gradually grown apart, fighting circumstances and personal traumas that have renders them depressed but not hopeless. I have created a family album that is laden with themes of intimacy, alienation, and pain.

Bio

Erin Geideman is a graduate of Syracuse University where she received a BFA in Art Photography with a minor in Art History. For two years she has worked as an assistant to The Canary Project under its founders, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris. She has also completed a one year internship at Light Work, an internationally known art photography organization, where she has assisted artists including Valerio Spada, George Gittoes, Jason Eskenazi, and Alexandre Demenkova. Geideman is currently based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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FujiFilm/EPF Young Talent Award

The FujiFilm/EPF Young Talent Award is an additional grant for photographers under 25. Using David Alan Harvey’s words “A heart felt thank you also to FujiFilm for making it possible for the EPF to keep focus on the future generations, the young ones, the ones with a vision already making a mark now… and just might make another jump soon…”

[ The Book ]

“I love the smell of urine in the morning, it reminds me of North Venice beach. The first place in America where a woman could wear a bathing suit in public, a man could go without a hat, where a person could pee in public without being arrested. The place where Kerouac, Burrows and John Wilber spoke while Charlie Parker played saxophone, where Morrison and Krieger pondered the doorway to the other side, where Charlie Chaplin built a ginger bread court for his mother, and W.C. Fields one for himself. Where you could get alcohol during prohibition, heroin during the fifties and sixties, crack in the eighties, and Meth in the new millennium. Where art meets crime. Where Arnold made pumping iron into Gold. Where you can see a man balance a stove on his chin while juggling chain saws. Break-dancing, roller-skating, and of course skate boarding. The slum by the sea, Dog Town.”

– Robin G. Brown

“Panos did not go to Venice Beach to take pictures. He was already there. There was no escape. Locked down. Stuck. California dreaming.

Click click.

Narcissistic, sarcastic, irreverent, hedonistic, decadent, satiric, ironic, paranoid, and flat out soulful, Panos is at the center of his own photographs. This is a good sign, for he lives inside his own work. Bring the boy another beer.

Death in Venice is a collection, a kaleidoscope, a myriad of mirrors, a massive mind spinning vortex. Get a grip on it. Or not. He doesn’t care.

THANK U NOTE:

BTW this book is dedicated to Scotty (vet) and all of the vampires and souls that create the Venice vortex.

To all Pirates, you know who you are! Thanks for the couches, floors, Bong hits, love, etc..

Each of you are a part of every picture. Carry it with you, as I will forever!

EXTRA LOVE:

Vissaria~ You are the future!!!! Maria~ Strong as a bird, Mom & Dad biggest hug, Kim my awesome wife, and Meredith, my super supportive mother in law… (thank u ALL for endless support……) LOLA~ Not last by any means. My Ghandi, my Buddha, my meditation, my companion. BURN MAGAZINE CREW~ Anton (THANK YOU FOR OUT OF THIS WORLD DESIGN), Diego YOU DA MAN, Haik……no words… RYAN! Oh Ryan what would I be without you? and FRANCESCA Gennari the killer associate producer…

[ Published by BurnBooks ]

I went a little bit crazy publishing this book. Just like I did the first time. In 1967, Bryan was six months old and I was spending the last $400 of the family money to go buy film. This time around isn’t any different. I am all in on the publication of Tell It Like It Is.

I say this proudly, yet not boastfully.

My pride is based on giving a percentage of profits to the Liggins family and to set up a scholarship for a minority photographer.

We take the self-publishing idea very seriously around here. I spare no expense in the manufacturing of my work. I just want it right. This makes my books a little more expensive, yet if you look closely you will clearly see the value of a well thought out, well designed, well assembled photo book. We do our best to make each of our books a piece of art.

None of this is possible without my colleagues Anton Kusters and Diego Orlando on design and production; Kaya Lee Berne all around producer, darkroom assistant, and make me get shit done woman, Michael Courvoisier for scanning the original negatives, Michelle Madden Smith for creating our new BurnStore, and my son Bryan for making the book video (and Michelle for editing it) and my other son Erin for helping me find the Liggins family and doing video of the reunion.

Tell It Like It Is is also a 25 print show, big 60”x40” silver gelatin prints at LOOK3, along with Haenyeo: Angels of the Sea (which is also a new book), along with NO FILTER, prints of some of my Brazil work. So I’ve got my hands full.

In short, we’ll be shipping as fast as we can, but cannot promise your package will go out until after June 15.

But do come see me at LOOK3. It’s the best U.S. photo fest hang. Down home style.

I put my heart into Tell It Like It Is in 1967, and I’ve put my heart into it now as well.

Originally shot In 1967 when David Alan Harvey was just 23 and in graduate journalism school in Missouri. Tell It Like It Is was destined to be re-published. It is a photographic slice of another era, and a small piece of one family’s history in the U.S.